Homoeosoma nimbella (Duponchel, 1837)

Tsvetkov, Eugene, 2020, Narrow-winged pyralids (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) of Leningrad Province and the city of St. Petersburg, Russia, Zootaxa 4890 (3), pp. 361-374 : 370

Homoeosoma nimbella (Duponchel, 1837)

( Sievers 1867 –1868; Erschoff 1880; Kawrigin 1894; Kozhanchikov 1958; J̹rivete et al. 2000)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. 3 Ƌ, 4 ♀, W env. of Luga, 6–7.vii.2014, 14–15.vi.2015.

REMARKS. I. Kozhanchikov found this species in Komarovo, where the population probably has become extinct. I found H. nimbella in Luga polygon ( Fig. 1 ). Imagoes flew over dry meadows on sandy soil in twilight. All specimens were caught by net. Local, rare.

DISTRIBUTION. Europe (middle belt and southern areas), Caucasus, Turkey, Central Asia, the south of West Siberia ( Roesler 1965, 1973; Sinev 1986; Karsholt & Razowski 1996; Leraut 2014; Koçak & Kemal 2018; Sinev et al. 2019).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Habitat of Ephestia mistralella, Episcythrastis tabidella and Homoeosoma nimbella, dry sandy meadow in environs of Luga (Luga polygon), 24 July 2015.